The Answer to the Riddle Is Me - by David Stuart MacLean (Paperback)

The Answer to the Riddle is Me by David Stuart MacLean is a gripping medical mystery, heartwarming personal journey, and chilling indictment of the commonly prescribed drug that upended MacLean's life - but left his superb literary skills intact.

This memoir is a deeply moving account of amnesia that explores the ever-echoing nature of identity in vivid, blooming detail.

MacLean fearlessly explores his journey to the edge of madness and subsequent return to sanity in an unsettling, sometimes riotous, memoir.

The book combines the evocative power of William Styron's Darkness Visible, the lyric subtlety of Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family, and the narrative immediacy of a Hollywood action film.

MacLean's account is raw and unsparing, and will surely take you out of your comfort zone - but the reward for sticking with it is the privilege of reading MacLean's profound and finely nuanced meditation on memory and identity.

This memoir is a must-read for anyone who has ever wondered about the nature of their own identity, or who has experienced the unsettling feeling of losing themselves in the world.